Another thing to add about Titanium Megatron: the Autobot sigils on his side in vehicle mode. Yes, I know they symbolize 'Bots he felled in battle, but something different could have been done with them. Like turn them upside-down, with jagged lines through them. But, that would take effort and imagination.
@@nucleonegro9762 I actually agree with you. If the Tri-Rex were retooled and rereleased in the Generations Toyline as a faction of Chimeracons, it would've made more sense than what we got.
I actually loved my ROF Scapel toy. It was hard to keep together, but whenever I lost a leg or piece I would pretend that was battle damage. He would often be my mad scientist reviver to bring back any dead decepticons or at one point, the creator of a zombie virus.
That anomaly actually does have a purpose to be remembered: To NOT be repeated! I recall loyally paying attention to your original "Worst Of" list, and this is just as competent. Please keep it up👍
This list is very accurate to be honest,it even listed bayverse demolisher,i can't belive that the cool design guy from the unicron trilogy turn into a oversized thing
@PurpleOwlAnimationi think i get it,you mean that sometimes the nemes dosn't fit characters sometimes (for example cybertron menasor he's not even a combiner like what he supposed to)
@@XboxTF2Tidbits How can you like the design it looks like pieces of stuff just glued together it looks awful and you’re probably awful as well (This is a joke calm down)
I will still wait for the day that they get to the point of redoing Beast Machines characters. I get that they are terrible designs and stuff, but some like the Vehicons really deserve new official toys (in the correct scale too) at some point for Generations. THe only figure we've ever gotten after the original toyline was T30 Tankor. Despite being a deluxe and having some bad QC with parts (namely the shoulders) being misassembled, it was still quite good for what it was. So far has been one of the best figures for Beast Machines imo.
As it turns out, beast machines was the LAST series they covered in the legacy line. Energon, RID, Cyberverse, Victory and even beast wars NEO got new toys before Beast Machines did.
I'll give it a shot...how about the "Arcee triplets" from Revenge of the Fallen? Arcee, Chromia, and Elita-1 were done SUPER dirty in that movie, even aside from the fact that they were unceremoniously killed off by random gunfire in the overly long and explosion heavy climax sequence. The Arcee "figure" had a motorcycle mode that didn't peg together well, a terribly misshapen robot mode that had virtually no poseability because of the giant arm and needed a stand made out of a side car because it had no legs, not to mention it just looked AWFUL. Chromia also looked terrible and couldn't stand because it's "foot" was a wheel, but it at least pegged together okay in vehicle mode, but Elita-1 who was originally supposed to her own mold at one point turned out to be a repaint of Chromia, and that meant their promised combined mode ended up not being a thing. With all of that crap the most recent Arcee being a lazy shellformer is no big deal...
With the mold for the Arcee figure they had laying around for the first Bayformer movie, I'm confused why they didn't use that as the model for "Arcee" or the triplets. Sure the thing was a bit ugly but at least it could stand upright and had decent articulation from what I can remember.
Eh. I'm on Retrax's side. I rather like bots like him and Bonecrusher where there's absolutely nothing else like them. I like when the designers take risks. And I think his weird techno-cow headsculpt looks cool too.
the thing with the rubber is because it's made of plastizicer or whatever it's called that melts plastic. yep. same thing is used for blast effects with the wfc line. You can't use any blast effects to display with your figures because you risk them pulling little bits of plastic off. I keep all of mine in the little box that came with tricranius
Why didn't they learn their mistake the first time? I personally don't have any WFC blast effects (despite having a lot of wfc figures) but I was considering trying to get some. Might not now.
in defense of the animorphs toys being horrifying body horror abominations, it at least follows how the books would regularly delve into finding any and all excuses to graphically describe the complete terror of physically morphing into non-human organisms with the same nonchalant tone you'd describe a minor back ache to your doctor
I kinda wish the upscaled Prime cyberverse toys had gotten another wave. Finish out the abominus team as deluxes, and embiggened commander class Hardshell and Unicron/Megatron
TJ, I LOVE your videos, and have been watching for years. I have a pretty large collection of Transformers myself, and was hoping to have most of them on your list.. I was just missing a few.. but had my feelings hurt a little on Scalpel and Retrax I don't know why, but I've always loved both of those bots!!! LOL I would have thrown on ROTF Arcee, and Beast Hunters Abominus on there. Yech. ROTF Arcee is definitely my most hated Transformer in my collection, which is also why I love her.
He actually did do a video on Abominus years ago. He basically takes the view that it's not a great combined mode, but considering that it's a Legion-class combiner, it's more of a bonus mode to five other toys that are mostly okay at worst.
I don't have a "worst" figure, because I always find a way to like something, regardless of how bad it is, but based on the fandom's opinions, I'd say Prime RiD Airachniid, she shelfwarmed HARD, I remember seeing some for about 5 bucks a pop, when CW was already out.
OH MY GOD SOMEONE ELSE ACTUALLY REMEMBERS THAT ETERNALLY-CURSED ANIMORPHS TYRANNOSAURUS! I got that in a box lot once and was entertained wholly by how revolting it was.
I absolutely love the Armada Side Swipe. Yes, it's terrible but it's loveably terrible. The motorcycle that flips out of the back is a very fun gimmick. He may look like a car crash in robot mode, but I love him.
Might qualify as low-hanging fruit, but I do think that Prime Robots in Disguise Deluxe Airachnid belongs on a list of the worst Transfomers toys. Articulation and show-accuracy sacrificed in the name of weird gimmicks and questionable engineering choices, to the point that (as others have pointed out) the Legion-class figure is actually a better toy and a better representation of the character.
The thing I always found galling with the scaled up cyberverse figures at the end of the Beast Hunters toyline is that if you go into pound shops you're likely to find upscalled legends class KO figures in there for a couple of quid, and Hasbro were doing the exact same thing (or near enough), and charging full price.
I'd still like to see someone revisit Titanium Megatron's design. I think the robot design is pretty cool, but of course that toy's robot mode is totally unplayable. The tank wouldn't be too hard to fix, mostly just balancing out the color and making the lower half look less like a block.
Authentics Dinobot Grimlock 'Bravo'. Maybe the fact that a Voyager-class figure comes with some assembly required should have been a sign. He's so disappointing and depressing to look at, and bits of him fall off very easily, at least on mine. He's a McDonalds pack-in style toy that you actually have to pay for.
I happen to have three of the Armada Sideswipe mold - the original with Nightbeat, the Cybertron redeco as Runamuck (Runabout) with a gun block, and the Battle in a Box Treadshot which I painted as actual Runamuck (with the unchanged Nightbeat painted as "Battlecharger") to go with the Cybertron one. Far from my favorite Armada figure but weirdly interesting.
A couple of ones I would say is that personally I think nightscream from beast machines was my least favorite, though I don't know if it's actually the worst or not. Both modes look ridiculously ugly, it's also hilariously out of scale just like silverbolt (I think nightscream was shorter than rattrap), and even the articulation sucks because a lot of it is just ratchety uncomfortable crap. At least with silverbolt he can have a kind of cool unofficial gryphon mode just like how longhorn can have a minotaur mode to save that figure, And supreme cheetor isn't offensive to the eye and his hilariously bad. If you're gonna talk about an ugly weird robot mode from revenge of the fallen that can't stand, my first pick wouldn't be demolishor, but instead Arcee. That figure has an okay vehicle mode, but one of the worst robot modes I have ever seen in my life. It actually astonishes me that some people consider Earthrise Arcee worse than that figure, at least Earthrise Arcee has arguably the best looking robot mode of any of Hasbro's attempts, even if it's lacking in paint in a couple of areas. Revenge of the Fallen Arcee is just an absolute mess and the sad thing is the first movie was perfectly fine, so I don't get what they were thinking (yes I'm aware the toy is based off of the movie, but they still could have made a more appealing toy)
And the worst part is, Arcee was not originally gonna look like that. Her 2007 movie toy is based on her original CG model that was supposed to appear in the 2007 movie, but she was replaced by Ironhide. She even had legs and everything. Why she never had legs in the 2nd movie is beyond me.
Supreme Cheetor is the stuff of my nightmares... I never saw much of Beast Machines and thankfully never SAW this thin in series... BUT HOLY HELL WHO THOUGH CROSS-BREEDING CHEETOR WITH A CENOBITE AND A XENOMORPH WAS A GOOD IDEA?!
5:45 I would've gone with Airachnid since her legion is better than her deluxe. 10:31 My understanding of Animorphs is body horror abounds, so these toys are accurate in that regard.
I can see why you let out G1 ones as they were based on Diaclone and others, and were first. Ratchet/Ironhide were not even the complete robots with pilots as they were in Diaclone. But no, not the worst.
Still #1! Megs was still the worst for me and I gave him to you. I'm curious if he has had any parts leprosy over the past decade. Are the die-cast bowling balls still hanging from threads or have the threads finally snapped? I'm mainly thinking of the arms. The legs or pelvis you just have to look at funny and he falls to pieces.
Always #1. Admittedly I haven't looked at him in a while, he's kept in a bin with the other Addict toys where he cannot harm the world anymore, but last I checked he was still barely holding together.
Yep, my Scalpel's leg joints all disintegrated one by one. Though he would have been an okay figure in my book if he'd managed to stay intact. He's mistransformed in most pictures I've seen of him, the shell halves should come up all the way and meet each other forming a kind of spine instead of covering up his (materially shameful) hips.
I hope scalpel gets an update Edit: I’m surprised he didn’t bring up SS Scavenger which has more possibility especially the arms, more stable for both wheels, and a third chest mode for Devastator
Scalpel's alt mode has been misnamed for years, it's not supposed to be a microscope, it's a stereoscope, wich serve a similar purpose of a microscope, but with large objets.
I have mine in "spider" mode posing at the ceiling-edge of a TF shelf display...looks creepy & I believe my wife has sprayed it several times with Raid... O,o
I once had that Supreme Cheetor for a bit. Because it was cheap but complete. I played with it, confirmed that it was garbage, then sold it with a profit. Also, replace Double-Cluch from the team and replace him with PCC Huffer to make the team perfect. Those from the list that I love just because they are adorably "bad": Retrax, A. Sideswipe (and his repaints), Titanium GI-Joe Megatron (deserving his #1 spot.)
I would only touch Returns Silverbolt and Armada Sideswipe because there are no decent alternatives that I know of. The rest can sit in a museum exhibit of bad toy design. Edit: after seeing how big Scalpel is, maybe, just maybe, I’ll make an exception for him as well.
Man i started watching your show like 10 years ago; funnily enough i checked on my little brother who had gotten into my old transformers only to see his favorite one…was rotf demolisher
Tri-rex is made almost entirely of a completely normal yellow non-swirled plastic that's going to last as long as any other transformer, minus the tail which is a rubbery plastic
I made a top 10 worst list a while back, and my bottom 2 were G1 Guzzle and Choro-Q Megatron. Guzzle because he has less transformation steps than some of the Wendy's GoBots, AND they're painfully tight, AND the gimmick was dead on mine. Choro-Q Megatron because, as awesome as a chibi transforming gun is, I've never encountered plastic so fragile. It broke in multiple places _immediately._ And then the replacement TF Source sent me *also* broke in multiple places immediately. _It actually loses to G2 Electro, who I was able to get one full transformation out of._
The fact that you mentioned Built To Rule in the beginning really just reminds me of how old I am. I had 2 sets of Armada Demolisher (one was night attack?), the Optimus Prime and Hung Ho from GI Joe.
Animated voyager megatron, in a line that excelled with great engineering and cartoon accuracy, this guy is an embarrassment. Bad paint, bad plastic, doesn't fit together, and the gimmick sucks. Plus bad proportions, huge legs with a tiny body that's the same size or smaller than the deluxe.
I'll say that the upscaled Legion class figures are great for kids. You have the bigger scale that's better to hold while having a little more complexity. I think the same of the Cyber Battalion figures they had at Walgreen's and now on Hasbro Pulse.
Sideswipe! One of my earliest memories! Hid under my pillow and played with at night! I DESPISED any of the fallen devastator figs The horror. Treads are my least favorite aspect because of them!
I had that Retrax as a kid, and always assumed it was some kind of dollar store knockoff! I am literally only now realising it was an actual licensed figure instead of Super Deform Star God or something. Jesus wept.
I still have that cheetor figure. I still sorta like him, but he takes up a bunch of room (still in his box) in my closet. He's just kinda big and clunky, maybe as a kid I liked him, but I also had the jetstorm ultra class and that was way more played with. He might still be in my house somewhere. Those are my only 2 Beast Machine toys. I have optimal optimus and a deluxe waspinator (red and gold) from Beast Wars.
Yo I had titanium megatron as a kid and can atest to its structural integrity. A couple months back I actually found one of his legs in my closet years after finding an arm in a completely different house.
I loved Retrax! He was one of my favorite Preds outside of the Mainframe characters. Sideswipes bot mode is bad but I like him being a regular, boring looking car. Kinda suits his personality. You could make a top ten worst just using Titanium figures.
The first one instantly had Phelous rush into my head because of HIS 'Worst of the g1 episodes' review. "The microscope beat the combiner! The MICROSCOPE-! Beat the COMBINER!"
Cybertron Soundwave/Universe Blaster - Jet mode did not peg together, sub-par robot mode. Laserbeak/Blockrock mini-con gives it some redeeming value; though it still suffers from having to live in the shadow of the OG Soundwave and how cool the cassette tape gimmick is.
RotF Demolishor is especially not great now that Studio Series Scavenger is a thing. A version of that design that doesn't have rubber treads, is capable of combining with the other Constructicon figures, and, while it does still require a bit of extra support to remain upright, can be very simply mistransformed to give it a more stable standing surface.
bang on about retrax. the beast mode is fine, but the robot mode is utter trash. I also remember finding that cheetor stomach piece in a bin of parts and thinking it was part of some bug transfromer. It really was a giant piece of plastic turd.
Can confirm on ROTF Demolisher: The rubber threads is warping away at the dark metallic olive plastic he has inside the wheel assembly. It looks like melted cheese. Nothing too severe but once you see it, you can't unsee it. Heard the Bludgeon mold has a similar condition.
I can think of a positive for Titanium Megatron:
All that die-cast means it could make a decent paperweight.
who use paperweights anyway! 🤣🤣
@@sebastianthomsen2225 people with real jobs
@@MrPsyren99 I'd rather grab a random stone from streets instead 😂🤣
@@MrPsyren99 what kind of job does a magikarp have?
@@SpencerStudios Finds out if you're too close to the splash zone
Another thing to add about Titanium Megatron: the Autobot sigils on his side in vehicle mode. Yes, I know they symbolize 'Bots he felled in battle, but something different could have been done with them. Like turn them upside-down, with jagged lines through them. But, that would take effort and imagination.
Tally marks probably would have conveyed the idea better. The fact that he was killing Autobots is kind of self-evident; he's _Megatron._
Just make the Autobot symbols smaller than the Decepticon.
Or mark them with an x
Tri-Rex's human forms look like something out of Parasite Eve.
I enjoyed Tri-Rex as a kid.
I think Tri-Rex would be better if all of it's modes were mechanical instead of organic
God that game was nightmare fuel for me as a kid
Man I loved that game, and I hadn’t thought of it in a long while.
@@nucleonegro9762 I actually agree with you. If the Tri-Rex were retooled and rereleased in the Generations Toyline as a faction of Chimeracons, it would've made more sense than what we got.
I actually loved my ROF Scapel toy. It was hard to keep together, but whenever I lost a leg or piece I would pretend that was battle damage. He would often be my mad scientist reviver to bring back any dead decepticons or at one point, the creator of a zombie virus.
That anomaly actually does have a purpose to be remembered:
To NOT be repeated!
I recall loyally paying attention to your original "Worst Of" list, and this is just as competent. Please keep it up👍
I love how sideswipe needs his a minicon to ask the teacher a question
This list is very accurate to be honest,it even listed bayverse demolisher,i can't belive that the cool design guy from the unicron trilogy turn into a oversized thing
@PurpleOwlAnimationi think i get it,you mean that sometimes the nemes dosn't fit characters sometimes (for example cybertron menasor he's not even a combiner like what he supposed to)
@@bilal_Hadjlaoui907 Sometimes Hasbro just gives random Transformers random names to keep the trademark.
@@Magnet_Chaos yeah,that's what i mean
I honestly like the design but I agree
@@XboxTF2Tidbits How can you like the design it looks like pieces of stuff just glued together it looks awful and you’re probably awful as well (This is a joke calm down)
The second he mentioned the words “Double Clutch” and “Rallybots” I shuddered and got goosebumps from thinking of the atrocity of the thing.
I honestly love Retrax for his hugging gimmick. He is kind of an over affectionate pet of my predacons.
Finally, a list from someone who knows what they're talking about.
I will still wait for the day that they get to the point of redoing Beast Machines characters. I get that they are terrible designs and stuff, but some like the Vehicons really deserve new official toys (in the correct scale too) at some point for Generations. THe only figure we've ever gotten after the original toyline was T30 Tankor. Despite being a deluxe and having some bad QC with parts (namely the shoulders) being misassembled, it was still quite good for what it was. So far has been one of the best figures for Beast Machines imo.
Same here I would love to see some of the Vehicon Generals show up in legacy. A voyager sized Vehicon Thrust is on my want list.
As it turns out, beast machines was the LAST series they covered in the legacy line. Energon, RID, Cyberverse, Victory and even beast wars NEO got new toys before Beast Machines did.
I'll give it a shot...how about the "Arcee triplets" from Revenge of the Fallen? Arcee, Chromia, and Elita-1 were done SUPER dirty in that movie, even aside from the fact that they were unceremoniously killed off by random gunfire in the overly long and explosion heavy climax sequence. The Arcee "figure" had a motorcycle mode that didn't peg together well, a terribly misshapen robot mode that had virtually no poseability because of the giant arm and needed a stand made out of a side car because it had no legs, not to mention it just looked AWFUL. Chromia also looked terrible and couldn't stand because it's "foot" was a wheel, but it at least pegged together okay in vehicle mode, but Elita-1 who was originally supposed to her own mold at one point turned out to be a repaint of Chromia, and that meant their promised combined mode ended up not being a thing. With all of that crap the most recent Arcee being a lazy shellformer is no big deal...
With the mold for the Arcee figure they had laying around for the first Bayformer movie, I'm confused why they didn't use that as the model for "Arcee" or the triplets. Sure the thing was a bit ugly but at least it could stand upright and had decent articulation from what I can remember.
I had these back in the day and they had the 3 ports that could combine which was really sad because we never got it
@@glitch_re-loaded6757 until ss....
Hated what they did to arcee and elita 1 iin that movie
They literally turned Chromia and Elita into Arcee Clones
No shit, they're clones hiveminded to Arcee
Retrax's Beast Wars 2nd version is called Powerhug. His earwig and weevil buddies were Scissor Boy and Drill Nuts.
On the whole body horror thing with that Animorph, _apparently_ the books were pretty heavy on the Body Horror aspect so... technically accurate?
Eh. I'm on Retrax's side. I rather like bots like him and Bonecrusher where there's absolutely nothing else like them. I like when the designers take risks. And I think his weird techno-cow headsculpt looks cool too.
I remember back when I was in elementary school, I saw Beast Machines Supreme Class Cheetor in person at my local Wal-Mart and he was HUGE!
Even to this day, I can still smell smoke coming from my eyes from Titanium Megatron.
the thing with the rubber is because it's made of plastizicer or whatever it's called that melts plastic. yep. same thing is used for blast effects with the wfc line. You can't use any blast effects to display with your figures because you risk them pulling little bits of plastic off. I keep all of mine in the little box that came with tricranius
Why didn't they learn their mistake the first time? I personally don't have any WFC blast effects (despite having a lot of wfc figures) but I was considering trying to get some. Might not now.
in defense of the animorphs toys being horrifying body horror abominations, it at least follows how the books would regularly delve into finding any and all excuses to graphically describe the complete terror of physically morphing into non-human organisms with the same nonchalant tone you'd describe a minor back ache to your doctor
At least Titanium Megs had the decency to break in the box so you knew not to buy him.
I kinda wish the upscaled Prime cyberverse toys had gotten another wave. Finish out the abominus team as deluxes, and embiggened commander class Hardshell and Unicron/Megatron
Can I just say I'm so glad you're doing g videos again. I love your content. Thank you for all you do.
I bought Titanium Megs. Took him home, Transformed him, put him back in the box and returned him. It's sad when the toy's bio is better than the toy.
TJ, I LOVE your videos, and have been watching for years. I have a pretty large collection of Transformers myself, and was hoping to have most of them on your list.. I was just missing a few.. but had my feelings hurt a little on Scalpel and Retrax I don't know why, but I've always loved both of those bots!!! LOL I would have thrown on ROTF Arcee, and Beast Hunters Abominus on there. Yech. ROTF Arcee is definitely my most hated Transformer in my collection, which is also why I love her.
Love them because they are unique...
Should get the 3rd party Scalpel it's so much better, the microscope isn't as convincing but the robot mode has so much articulation.
He actually did do a video on Abominus years ago. He basically takes the view that it's not a great combined mode, but considering that it's a Legion-class combiner, it's more of a bonus mode to five other toys that are mostly okay at worst.
I don't have a "worst" figure, because I always find a way to like something, regardless of how bad it is, but based on the fandom's opinions, I'd say Prime RiD Airachniid, she shelfwarmed HARD, I remember seeing some for about 5 bucks a pop, when CW was already out.
OH MY GOD SOMEONE ELSE ACTUALLY REMEMBERS THAT ETERNALLY-CURSED ANIMORPHS TYRANNOSAURUS! I got that in a box lot once and was entertained wholly by how revolting it was.
I absolutely love the Armada Side Swipe. Yes, it's terrible but it's loveably terrible. The motorcycle that flips out of the back is a very fun gimmick. He may look like a car crash in robot mode, but I love him.
Most of these would be fun to fidget around with on my desk while in a virtual meeting
Might qualify as low-hanging fruit, but I do think that Prime Robots in Disguise Deluxe Airachnid belongs on a list of the worst Transfomers toys. Articulation and show-accuracy sacrificed in the name of weird gimmicks and questionable engineering choices, to the point that (as others have pointed out) the Legion-class figure is actually a better toy and a better representation of the character.
The thing I always found galling with the scaled up cyberverse figures at the end of the Beast Hunters toyline is that if you go into pound shops you're likely to find upscalled legends class KO figures in there for a couple of quid, and Hasbro were doing the exact same thing (or near enough), and charging full price.
I’d argue that Beast Wars Neo Randy should be on this list, since transforming him is a suicide mission for him.
TJ already mentioned him on the gold plastic syndrome video, and the original razorback figure didn't have that problem.
I'd still like to see someone revisit Titanium Megatron's design. I think the robot design is pretty cool, but of course that toy's robot mode is totally unplayable. The tank wouldn't be too hard to fix, mostly just balancing out the color and making the lower half look less like a block.
Authentics Dinobot Grimlock 'Bravo'. Maybe the fact that a Voyager-class figure comes with some assembly required should have been a sign. He's so disappointing and depressing to look at, and bits of him fall off very easily, at least on mine. He's a McDonalds pack-in style toy that you actually have to pay for.
I happen to have three of the Armada Sideswipe mold - the original with Nightbeat, the Cybertron redeco as Runamuck (Runabout) with a gun block, and the Battle in a Box Treadshot which I painted as actual Runamuck (with the unchanged Nightbeat painted as "Battlecharger") to go with the Cybertron one. Far from my favorite Armada figure but weirdly interesting.
A couple of ones I would say is that personally I think nightscream from beast machines was my least favorite, though I don't know if it's actually the worst or not. Both modes look ridiculously ugly, it's also hilariously out of scale just like silverbolt (I think nightscream was shorter than rattrap), and even the articulation sucks because a lot of it is just ratchety uncomfortable crap. At least with silverbolt he can have a kind of cool unofficial gryphon mode just like how longhorn can have a minotaur mode to save that figure, And supreme cheetor isn't offensive to the eye and his hilariously bad.
If you're gonna talk about an ugly weird robot mode from revenge of the fallen that can't stand, my first pick wouldn't be demolishor, but instead Arcee. That figure has an okay vehicle mode, but one of the worst robot modes I have ever seen in my life. It actually astonishes me that some people consider Earthrise Arcee worse than that figure, at least Earthrise Arcee has arguably the best looking robot mode of any of Hasbro's attempts, even if it's lacking in paint in a couple of areas. Revenge of the Fallen Arcee is just an absolute mess and the sad thing is the first movie was perfectly fine, so I don't get what they were thinking (yes I'm aware the toy is based off of the movie, but they still could have made a more appealing toy)
What is a nightscream
@@karlninoa.trinidad9872 shit character with an even shittier toy
@@karlninoa.trinidad9872 Nightscream, the Beast Machines figure who turns into a bat.
And the worst part is, Arcee was not originally gonna look like that. Her 2007 movie toy is based on her original CG model that was supposed to appear in the 2007 movie, but she was replaced by Ironhide. She even had legs and everything. Why she never had legs in the 2nd movie is beyond me.
With ROTF Demolishor, I would have just done something different with the materials for the treads. Maybe plastic with hinges?
Supreme Cheetor is the stuff of my nightmares... I never saw much of Beast Machines and thankfully never SAW this thin in series... BUT HOLY HELL WHO THOUGH CROSS-BREEDING CHEETOR WITH A CENOBITE AND A XENOMORPH WAS A GOOD IDEA?!
The beast hunters era of the prime series was a night mare other than shockwave because his beast pieces were removable and was an amazing figure
As much as I loved and still love them, I could fill a whole list with Animorphs Transformers alone
5:45 I would've gone with Airachnid since her legion is better than her deluxe.
10:31 My understanding of Animorphs is body horror abounds, so these toys are accurate in that regard.
Oh gods, airachnid.... 🤢🤮
If he did 25 I’m sure Airachnid would have made the list.
I can see why you let out G1 ones as they were based on Diaclone and others, and were first. Ratchet/Ironhide were not even the complete robots with pilots as they were in Diaclone. But no, not the worst.
No, the worst G1 transformer toy isn't Sparkstalker. His G2 figure is somehow many times worse.
Star wars chewbacca. It's just obvious. You could find it broken in the packaging because tye GPS was so heavy.
Still #1! Megs was still the worst for me and I gave him to you. I'm curious if he has had any parts leprosy over the past decade. Are the die-cast bowling balls still hanging from threads or have the threads finally snapped? I'm mainly thinking of the arms. The legs or pelvis you just have to look at funny and he falls to pieces.
Always #1. Admittedly I haven't looked at him in a while, he's kept in a bin with the other Addict toys where he cannot harm the world anymore, but last I checked he was still barely holding together.
Yep, my Scalpel's leg joints all disintegrated one by one. Though he would have been an okay figure in my book if he'd managed to stay intact. He's mistransformed in most pictures I've seen of him, the shell halves should come up all the way and meet each other forming a kind of spine instead of covering up his (materially shameful) hips.
Yes. My Scalpel had been suffering from the Translucent plastic.
I hope scalpel gets an update
Edit: I’m surprised he didn’t bring up SS Scavenger which has more possibility especially the arms, more stable for both wheels, and a third chest mode for Devastator
The upscaled legion class toys from prime came out here in Chile as well, we even had some "voyagers" that were upscaled commanders from the line
To my dying day, nothing will ever replace #1 in my book, too. Wow it was another level of awful…
Scalpel's alt mode has been misnamed for years, it's not supposed to be a microscope, it's a stereoscope, wich serve a similar purpose of a microscope, but with large objets.
Your average person probably doesn't even know the difference.
his altmode was a lensmeter BUT who cares... 🤷♂
I have mine in "spider" mode posing at the ceiling-edge of a TF shelf display...looks creepy & I believe my wife has sprayed it several times with Raid... O,o
@@thatdonutboy4321 Given how weak the toy is that may be a bad thing. Raid has stuff in it that can eat plastic.
I once had that Supreme Cheetor for a bit. Because it was cheap but complete. I played with it, confirmed that it was garbage, then sold it with a profit. Also, replace Double-Cluch from the team and replace him with PCC Huffer to make the team perfect. Those from the list that I love just because they are adorably "bad": Retrax, A. Sideswipe (and his repaints), Titanium GI-Joe Megatron (deserving his #1 spot.)
On the plus side, if TF ever released horror content Tri-rex would be perfect for it.
I would only touch Returns Silverbolt and Armada Sideswipe because there are no decent alternatives that I know of. The rest can sit in a museum exhibit of bad toy design.
Edit: after seeing how big Scalpel is, maybe, just maybe, I’ll make an exception for him as well.
I forgot about #9. I remember him being a major shelf warmer.
Man i started watching your show like 10 years ago; funnily enough i checked on my little brother who had gotten into my old transformers only to see his favorite one…was rotf demolisher
Unfortunately I do love ROTF Voyager Class Demolishor. I can understand why somebody doesn’t like, but I’m in love with it.
Tri-Rex has one thing against it you didn't mention. Nowadays you might not play with it for long before Gold Plastic Syndrome mercy-kills it.
Tri-rex is made almost entirely of a completely normal yellow non-swirled plastic that's going to last as long as any other transformer, minus the tail which is a rubbery plastic
I made a top 10 worst list a while back, and my bottom 2 were G1 Guzzle and Choro-Q Megatron. Guzzle because he has less transformation steps than some of the Wendy's GoBots, AND they're painfully tight, AND the gimmick was dead on mine. Choro-Q Megatron because, as awesome as a chibi transforming gun is, I've never encountered plastic so fragile. It broke in multiple places _immediately._ And then the replacement TF Source sent me *also* broke in multiple places immediately. _It actually loses to G2 Electro, who I was able to get one full transformation out of._
Poor Demolishor, a victim of a poor choice of rubber that won't last very long.
Where were you when I was growing up? I love your channel anyway! Keep up the good work dude!! ALL HAIL TJMega
Those Animorph figures have the tortured look of some poor creature silently begging you to put them out of their misery.
The fact that you mentioned Built To Rule in the beginning really just reminds me of how old I am. I had 2 sets of Armada Demolisher (one was night attack?), the Optimus Prime and Hung Ho from GI Joe.
How many times did they recolor and re-release Armada Sideswipe? Like, ninety?
Animated voyager megatron, in a line that excelled with great engineering and cartoon accuracy, this guy is an embarrassment. Bad paint, bad plastic, doesn't fit together, and the gimmick sucks. Plus bad proportions, huge legs with a tiny body that's the same size or smaller than the deluxe.
I'll say that the upscaled Legion class figures are great for kids. You have the bigger scale that's better to hold while having a little more complexity. I think the same of the Cyber Battalion figures they had at Walgreen's and now on Hasbro Pulse.
Hotshot, Cheetor, Megatron...... Three main characters made in bad quality toys...... That is really epic failure......
Sideswipe! One of my earliest memories! Hid under my pillow and played with at night!
I DESPISED any of the fallen devastator figs
The horror.
Treads are my least favorite aspect because of them!
15:38 what if they are a plane or boat or space drill , sub. , Hover tank. Etc. etc.
i have an animorphs tri-rex. it's very hillarious, i love it.
I had that Retrax as a kid, and always assumed it was some kind of dollar store knockoff! I am literally only now realising it was an actual licensed figure instead of Super Deform Star God or something. Jesus wept.
If it's any consolation, I STILL feel bad about sending you all of those Animorphs toys. Especially the Tri-Rex.
I still feel bad that I was supposed to review and return them, that was right when things here started getting messy. All still here though.
To this day, 20+ years later, you can still buy MISB Supreme Cheetors for less than its original retail price.
I still have that cheetor figure. I still sorta like him, but he takes up a bunch of room (still in his box) in my closet. He's just kinda big and clunky, maybe as a kid I liked him, but I also had the jetstorm ultra class and that was way more played with. He might still be in my house somewhere. Those are my only 2 Beast Machine toys. I have optimal optimus and a deluxe waspinator (red and gold) from Beast Wars.
Yo I had titanium megatron as a kid and can atest to its structural integrity. A couple months back I actually found one of his legs in my closet years after finding an arm in a completely different house.
If the sound was off people would have thought you're doing another SirToys video :)
Tri-rex was an enlightening choice. Truly, Truly horrifying and horrible.
Lmaooooo man you are the king! 😂I’m crying! Loved it! Keep up the great reviews!
When I got Scrapel a long time ago, his legs' ball joints broke on me. I still got got him, kinda...
I might've swapped supreme Cheetor with Titanium Megatron. But yeah, it's close.
Is that giant Cheetor the one from the tail end of Robots in Disguise when they also put out that giant Primal?
Nice video man you got a subscriber can you do a list of 10 worst beast war figures?
I loved Retrax! He was one of my favorite Preds outside of the Mainframe characters. Sideswipes bot mode is bad but I like him being a regular, boring looking car. Kinda suits his personality. You could make a top ten worst just using Titanium figures.
Retrax is so bad he's kind of good.
The first one instantly had Phelous rush into my head because of HIS 'Worst of the g1 episodes' review.
"The microscope beat the combiner! The MICROSCOPE-! Beat the COMBINER!"
I swear this dude is the Gordon Ramsay of transformers.
"FUCKING RAW!!"
Out of all the great toys in my childhood collection one of the very few I kept was this very same power core dude 😕
Cybertron Soundwave/Universe Blaster - Jet mode did not peg together, sub-par robot mode. Laserbeak/Blockrock mini-con gives it some redeeming value; though it still suffers from having to live in the shadow of the OG Soundwave and how cool the cassette tape gimmick is.
Watched your review on Titanium Megatron back in the day, and it still amazes me how bad he is 😁
I remember having number 6, when I was younger. It was kinda weird
Good to see you doing videos again TJ!
I think the Tri-Rex would have worked better as part of Beast Wars. Still not the best, but it wouldn't have looked as ugly.
RotF Demolishor is especially not great now that Studio Series Scavenger is a thing.
A version of that design that doesn't have rubber treads, is capable of combining with the other Constructicon figures, and, while it does still require a bit of extra support to remain upright, can be very simply mistransformed to give it a more stable standing surface.
bang on about retrax. the beast mode is fine, but the robot mode is utter trash.
I also remember finding that cheetor stomach piece in a bin of parts and thinking it was part of some bug transfromer. It really was a giant piece of plastic turd.
Honestly surprised to not see the first masterpiece megatron on here.
At least the Tri-Rex’s T-Rex mode had less kibble.
I found that giant Cheetor in a goodwill bin! 🤣🤣🤣
Can confirm on ROTF Demolisher: The rubber threads is warping away at the dark metallic olive plastic he has inside the wheel assembly. It looks like melted cheese. Nothing too severe but once you see it, you can't unsee it. Heard the Bludgeon mold has a similar condition.
I wish we had got a Unicron repaint of Retracks (sp?)
wow what a nostalgia trip.... that sideswipe figure was my very first figure!
Most of the BM toys are "kill it with fire"
Great list TJ, nice vid.
Also, Double Clutch was my first Power Core Combiners character. I later got Stakeout too.
I'm sorry, my eyes keep going to that Mewtwo over your shoulder glowering at us. 😄